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{{Infobox software
| name = Datomic
| logo = Datomic Logo.png
| author = [[Rich Hickey]], Stuart Halloway, Justin Gehtland
| developer = Cognitect
| released = {{Start date and age|2012}}
| latest release version = 1.0.7180
| latest release date = {{release date and age|2024|07|11}}
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| programming language = [[Clojure (programming language)|Clojure]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introduction {{!}} Datomic |url=https://docs.datomic.com/datomic-overview.html |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=docs.datomic.com}}</ref>
| genre = [[Datalog]], [[NoSQL]]
| license = [[Apache 2.0]] (binaries only)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Datomic - Datomic is Free |url=https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/datomic-is-free.html |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=blog.datomic.com}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|datomic.com}}
}}
'''Datomic''' is a [[distributed database]] and implementation of [[Datalog]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.infoq.com/articles/Datomic-Information-Model | title=The Datomic Information Model |access-date=2013-02-04|date=2013-02-01|author=Hickey, Rich}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2012/datomic-a-new-database-system.html|title=Datomic: A New Database |accessdate=2013-02-04|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309150858/https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/datomic-a-new-database-system |archivedate=2013-03-09|publisher=The Strange Loop|author=Halloway, Stuart}}</ref> It has [[ACID]] transactions, joins, and a logical query language, Datalog.<ref>{{cite web | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708152901/https://www.datomic.com/rationale.html |archivedate=2013-07-08 | url=https://www.datomic.com/rationale.html | title=Datomic Rationale | accessdate=2013-02-04|publisher=Cognitect}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/04/datomic | title=Rich Hickey's Datomic embraces Cloud, intelligent Applications and Consistency | accessdate=2013-02-04|author=Hunger, Michael}}</ref> A distinguishing feature of Datomic is that [[time]] is a basic feature of data entities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/conference-registration/13haskell/submissions/hal8_submission_17.pdf|author=Kiel, Alexander|title=Datomic - A Functional Database|publisher=[[Leipzig University]]|date=2013-02-05}}</ref>
==Architecture==
It has been designed for first-class use with [[JVM]] languages such as Java and [[Clojure]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/|title=The Design of Datomic|author=Hickey, Rich|date=2012-06-06}}</ref>
In its reference architecture, Datomic uses peers<ref name="PeerJava">{{cite web|url=https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html#the-peer-server|title=Overview of Peers in Datomic}}</ref> and transactors<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/transactor.html|title=Datomic Transactor|access-date=2021-04-08}}</ref> which run on the [[JVM]].
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